Attach camera.snapshot output as message payload?

Third party integrations Node-RED
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Hi all - a newbie with Node-RED so please bear with me. I am trying string my MotionEye camera into Deepstack for analysis, and then output to a notification (preferably through TelegramBot). I’m running into something basic - I am able to take a snapshot and the file is created, but I don’t know how to pass that into Deepstack.

I’m using node-red-contrib-deepstack (node) - Node-RED and the input is supposed to be an image buffer as msg.payload:

Node Object Detection

Sends an image to the Deepstack Object Detection API and outputs the predictions.

Inputs

The input message should contain the image to process.

msg.payload: Image buffer to process.

How would I go about pushing the file as an image buffer into msg.payload so the Deepstack node can process? Any tip or hint would be greatly appreciated.

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This seems like it’s going to take a while to process hopefully I’m wrong. You can use node-red-contrib-image-tools to change the image to a buffer. The payload needs to be the path to the snapshot.

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You can use a read file node - I’m doing the same to get images into Deepstack.

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